fix should be suitable for everybody, although some more testing should confirm that.
regarding adsense; don't know, really. does adsense rely on comments in the HTML. if so, thanks to the fix for NGG (the first one, with changes in autoptimizeHTML.php) it is trivial to exclude yet another comment. I even added a filter so anyone can exclude any comment.
going to mark this as resolved now, this has been hard but fun ;-)
thanks for your help!
frank